“It was definitely a situation where we wanted to go out and show that were were a better team than what we displayed in the Monday night game, where we got beat, 45-3,” Cotchery said. I think every guy had on their hearts and minds, we wanted to out there and display that for everybody to see, and I definitely had that on my heart and mind as well.”

On his pivotal 58-yard catch-and-run play late in the fourth quarter:

“Mark just did a great job of being on the same page with what I was doing,” said the Jets’ wide receiver. “He read me, he gave me the ball, and after that I just tried to make a play.”

On Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch’s post game comments, where he called the Jets “classless” for their on-field celebrations:

“I’m not sure who he was talking about, I would have been more comfortable if he would have named names,” said Cotchery. “I didn’t see any guys that were classless, I saw a lot of guys that were celebrating a great victory over a division rival.”